Epilepsy and psychogenic non-epileptic seizures in forcibly displaced people: A scoping review

At the end of 2019, 79.5 million people worldwide had been forcibly displaced; 45.7 million of these were internally displaced people (IDP), while 26 million were refugees. [1] The latter are either under the mandate of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR; 20.4 million) or the mandate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA; 5.6 million Palestinian refugees). The term refugee describes people who have left their home countries and cannot return owing to fear of persecution, conflict, violence or other reasons that may compromise their lives and health, as defined by the first article, ยง2, of the convention related to the status of refugees adopted on the 28th of July 1951 by the United Nations Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Status of Refugees and Stateless Persons [2].
Source: Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy - Category: Neurology Authors: Source Type: research